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Sony Cybershot TX9
Editor's Review
The TX9 is the latest in Sony's ever-popular, under-performing, and over-priced slim lineup. Sporting the usual sliding lens cover on the front, the TX9 costs more than the smaller and lighter WX5 (also just announced), but seems to put more of an emphasis on style than image quality, judging by the specs at least. The TX9 does have a whole bunch of cool image blending tricks, including sweep panorama, background defocus, low-noise stacking, and a nifty 3D mode. The lens, however, is a slow 4x zoomer and the 3.5" touchscreen isn't for everyone. At $399, this seems a little rich for our blood, but who are we to put a price on style?
Editor's Review
The TX9 is the latest in Sony's ever-popular, under-performing, and over-priced slim lineup. Sporting the usual sliding lens cover on the front, the TX9 costs more than the smaller and lighter WX5 (also just announced), but seems to put more of an emphasis on style than image quality, judging by the specs at least. The TX9 does have a whole bunch of cool image blending tricks, including sweep panorama, background defocus, low-noise stacking, and a nifty 3D mode. The lens, however, is a slow 4x zoomer and the 3.5" touchscreen isn't for everyone. At $399, this seems a little rich for our blood, but who are we to put a price on style?
Specifications
- 12 megapixels
- 4x optical zoom
- Optical image stabiliation
- 3.5-inch touchscreen LCD
- 1080p MP4/1080i AVCHD HD video
- 25-100mm focal length
- Sony G f3.5-6.3 lens
- 10 fps burst mode
- Exmor R CMOS sensor
- iSweep Panorama/3D Sweep Panorama
- Background Defocus
- Backlight Correction HDR
- Captures to SD/SDHC/Memory Stick Duo media cards
- HDMI output
- Rechargeable lithium-ion battery
- Release Date: Jul 09, 2010
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Sony Cybershot TX9 Comments & Questions (write your own!)
GJM
The good: Speedy shooting performance; slim, stylish design; plenty of fun, useful features; very good low-light photo quality for its class.
The bad: Soft photos, videos; poor battery life; 3D photos are of limited use.
The bottom line: As long as image softness doesn't bother you, the fast-shooting Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX9 is a quite capable camera for taking photos under a variety of conditions without much effort from the user.
And I agree with them. Looking at sample images over at imaging-resource.com, I started seeing obvious noise and a loss of detail at ISO400. You can do better.
